Land Loss Due to Recent Hurricanes in Coastal Louisiana, U.S.A

Autor:	John A. Barras, Monica Palaseanu-Lovejoy, John C. Brock, Christine J. Kranenburg
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	geography geography.geographical_feature_category Coastal hazards Ecology Coastal plain Wetland Storm Forestry Coastal erosion Oceanography Barrier island Thematic Mapper Satellite imagery Earth-Surface Processes Water Science and Technology
Zdroj:	Journal of Coastal Research. 63:97-109
ISSN:	1551-5036 0749-0208
DOI:	10.2112/si63-009.1
Popis:	Palaneasu-Lovejoy, M.; Kranenburg, C.; Barras, J.A., and Brock, J.C., 2013. Land loss due to recent hurricanes in coastal Louisiana, U.S.A.. In: Brock, J.C.; Barras, J.A., and Williams, S.J. (eds.), Understanding and Predicting Change in the Coastal Ecosystems of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 63, pp. 97–109, Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. The aim of this study is to improve estimates of wetland land loss in two study regions of coastal Louisiana, U.S.A., due to the extreme storms that impacted the region between 2004 and 2009. The estimates are based on change-detection-mapping analysis that incorporates pre and postlandfall (Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav, and Ike) fractional-water classifications using a combination of high-resolution (
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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